Microsoft has confirmed that the upcoming Xbox Scarlett will be capable of play video games at 4K. The firm has additionally mentioned that video games will be capable of run at 120 frames per second. It must be famous that video games will both run at 4K or at a decrease decision at 120 frames per second. It is not attainable for video games to run at 4k and 120 frames per second. The prime of the road GPU at this time, the NVIDIA RTX 2080Ti can not obtain this with a state-of-the-art PC, so it’s extremely unlikely {that a} console will be capable of run video games at 4K 120fps. But contemplating the {hardware} powering the Xbox Scarlett console, it’s attainable for it to attain 4K gaming or excessive frame fee gaming.

In dialog with Xbox Official Magazine, Microsoft says, “But, with the next-gen, I think you’ll see a big upgrade in CPU because we really want to make sure that you don’t have any compromises with the framerates. Yes, we can do 4K, but we can also do 120 frames per second. So I think that type of capability will be something that people don’t see today.”

The greatest improve to the PS5 and Xbox Scarlett will be the CPU. The new consoles will run on the AMD Ryzen Zen 2 CPU and Navi GPU with hardware-enabled Ray Tracing. In the previous, Microsoft did say that the brand new console is four instances extra highly effective than the Xbox One X (learn our overview right here). Microsoft has additionally confirmed that the brand new console will use SSD storage and include GDDR6 reminiscence. Sony has additionally confirmed SSD storage for the PS5.

One of the important thing highlights for Microsoft has been backwards compatibility and for the upcoming consoles, it appears to be like like each Sony and Microsoft are taking a look at enabling backwards compatibility on their respective consoles.

Details of the look of the Xbox Scarlett are not recognized however just lately leaked photographs have proven us the look of the PS5 dev equipment. This should not be mistaken as the ultimate unit as Sony has a historical past of constructing the dev kits look totally different from the ultimate unit. In the case of the PS4, the dev equipment was underpowered when in comparison with the launched PS4 so it’s attainable that some options, specs and talents of the PS5 and Xbox Scarlett may change earlier than launch.